"Mutton inducing salivation"

Being the Chinaphile that I am, I'm into the box I stuck over on the sidebar there. Zhongwen.com is a great place to brush up on your Chinese characters, and I noticed one in particular that sums up why I love China. The word for "envy" is what the title says, the combined characters for "mutton inducing salivation." And I can say, if any hungry person's ever walked down a crowded China street and smelled the sweet grilled aroma of mutton on a stick, you really do know what envy is. Awesome language, indeed.

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